[arch-general] question about vlc package

[Ryan Ply]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 04:36:28PM +0100, François Charette wrote:
> Today I needed to look at a video stream (with firefox) that required the 
> vlc mozilla plugin. So I installed the vlc package but was surprised that 
> it does not provide the plugin. The latter is in AUR/unsupported (as 
> vlc-plugin) and requires building the whole beast just to have that one 
> little .so file. Being a TU I could move vlc-plugin to community, but I 
> first wanted to ask whether there is any compelling reason for not 
> providing it with the vlc package in the first place?
>
> Thanks,
> F

Does it conflict with mplayer-plugin at all?  I have vlc, mplayer, and
mplayer-plugin on my system.

Ryan -